The series premiere of “We Are Osos” opens at night with Ryan Kalil addressing a football team in an otherwise empty, 10,000-seat stadium in northeast Mexico.It’s possible some of the Mexican players, or “locals,” don’t understand everything Kalil is saying. But everyone can pick up on the tone of his voice.“I love football, man. It is the greatest game in the world,” Kalil says. “For a while I thought being a football player wasn’t enough, and I bought in a little bit to that idea that I’m more than an athlete. But as I got older I thought, to hell with that.“I’m proud that this game has made me who I am, that it’s been such a huge part of who I am. Cause it’s hard. It’s f—— hard to play this game. It’s not for everyone. Not everyone can do what you guys do. So enjoy it. No matter what level you play at, enjoy it because it goes by fast.”Who will be named the 'green dot' player on Panthers defense?Robert MaysKalil played the game at the highest level for 13 NFL seasons, including 12 with the Carolina Panthers as a team captain and All-Pro center. After retiring following the 2019 season, Kalil moved back to Los Angeles to run the film and television production company he started with former NBA star Blake Griffin a few years earlier. Their company, Mortal Media, produced the “White Men Can’t Jump” reboot, as well as the Apple TV+ sci-fi dramedy “Hello Tomorrow!” starring Billy Crudup.Kalil also became a minority partner in Angel City FC, L.A.’s pro women’s soccer team in the NWSL. He enjoyed being part of a startup franchise, but wasn’t involved in the day-to-day operations. Plus, it wasn’t his sport.“There was something I was missing about (football),” Kalil said during a recent Zoom interview. “Obviously, having all that knowledge and experience and not being able to do anything with it in Hollywood or really any place other than my kid’s youth football team.”Then someone told Kalil about the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional (LFA), a seven-team league in Mexico, where Kalil’s paternal grandparents were from. When Kalil first brought up the idea of buying an LFA franchise to Griffin, the six-time NBA All-Star was confused.“There’s a part in the doc where he first asked me what I thought about football, like owning a Mexican football team. And I was like, ‘Yeah, I love soccer,’” Griffin told The Athletic. “He explained about the LFA, about the league down there, and I was equally as excited, if not more.”“We Are Osos” is an eight-part docuseries (airing on YouTube beginning at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday) that follows the Monterrey Osos through the 2025 season after Kalil and Griffin buy a majority stake in the team with a group of investors with serious NFL bona fides. There’s a Panthers thread connecting most of the other partners to Kalil, who convinced Christian McCaffrey, Luke Kuechly, Greg Olsen, Sam Darnold, Ron Rivera and George Kittle to get on board.“We always b—- about how I could’ve done this better or done this better,” McCaffrey says in the first episode. “Well, now we actually have an opportunity to see if we were actually right.”Mortal Media is producing the series with Supper Club, whose founder Jason Sterman has experience in the football space.